Nem Nướng

Name: Nem Nướng
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Ingredients: 600 g Pork shoulder, minced twice; 100 g Pork back fat, minced; 3 tbsp Sugar; 6 Garlic cloves, crushed; 3 Shallots, finely chopped; 2 tbsp Fish sauce; 1 tsp Baking powder; 1 tsp White pepper; 2 tbsp Roasted rice powder (thính); 20 Rice paper rounds; 300 g Lettuce, mint, perilla, coriander; 1 each Cucumber and green banana, sliced thin; 80 g Roasted peanuts, ground; 4 tbsp Fermented soybean sauce or hoisin, for the dip; 200 ml Coconut water

Pork pounded with sugar and garlic until it turns springy, moulded onto skewers and grilled over coals — rolled at the table into rice paper with herbs and a peanut-thickened dipping sauce.

Pinagmulan

Recipe ni Southern Vietnamese home kitchens · 🏺 Traditional · Saigon and Mekong Delta home cooking — sweeter, coconut-led, served with herbs by the armful

Vietnam · grilled pork skewers — An ownerless traditional dish, so no cook is credited. The cited article confirms nem nướng as Vietnamese grilled pork sausage or grilled meatballs, served as an appetizer or snack. The beating method, the chill-first step, the sauce ratio and the green-banana note are this book's own.

Karagdagang impormasyon sa Wikipedia ↗

Panoorin habang niluluto · 3 na video

Angus Nguyen Quang Tran Helen's Recipes (Vietnamese Food)

⏱ 70 min🍽 4 na serving🔥 460 kcal🇻🇳 Vietnam🌶️

Walang glutenWalang gatas

Mga hakbang

Mix the pork, fat, sugar, garlic, shallots, fish sauce, baking powder and pepper, then chill it for 30 minutes.
Beat the cold mixture hard with a spoon or by hand for 5 minutes, throwing it back into the bowl, until it turns pale, tacky and springy.
💡 This beating is the whole texture. Nem nướng should bounce, not crumble, and only the pounding gets it there — no ingredient can fake it.
Work in the roasted rice powder, then mould the mixture around skewers into fat sausages.
Grill over medium coals 10–12 minutes, turning often, until browned and firm.
For the sauce, simmer the soybean sauce with the coconut water and half the peanuts for 8 minutes, then stir in the rest.
Bring everything to the table and let people roll their own — rice paper, herbs, cucumber, banana, one sausage, dip.

💡 Mga tip

Nha Trang serves it with a fried rice-paper cracker rolled inside, which is the crunch the roll otherwise lacks. Break one in if you can find them.
Green banana and star fruit sound like garnishes and are not — the astringency cuts the fat, and the roll tastes heavy without them.